Yeong-eun, the heroine of the play ¡®My Men¡¯s Blood Type¡¯, is a magazine reporter. She is undertaking an article with I-seul, who is a friend of Yeong-eun, about blood type and love. They are researching a story about ex-boyfriends. The ex-boyfriends are as follows: an attractive senior, Ji-hun(type B), a wacky friend, Wongyu(type AB), a comfortable colleague, Gang-min(type
O), a timid colleague, Seunghyeon(type A). Yeong-eun and I-seul realize new means about blood types.
The audience could concentrate on the play because most people judge other people¡¯s personalities by blood types. The protagonists showed different responses according to their blood types when they dated. Most audiences sympathized with the actors who had the same blood types as themselves. Their performance was exaggerated to cause a laugh, but they expressed each personality type very well in regards to the blood types.
I think the play would have been much better if it had showed more information related with blood types. However, every person¡¯s personality doesn¡¯t match up with blood type. Therefore,
I hope that when people understand a person, they shouldn¡¯t judge with prejudice regarding blood type.
By Kim Seon-young
ksy31@cbnu.ac.kr